Blogging the NFL Rulebook – Introduction

Yet the NFL, unlike almostallotherleagues, doesn’t make its full rulebook freely available to the general public. (What’s on the NFL.com website under “Rulebook” is merely an unofficial rules digest intended to assist fans/media/etc. in understanding the rulebook.)

This combination of complication and unavailability has meant that the vast majority of NFL fans, broadcasters, and players aren’t aware of certain rulebook provisions.

Future posts in this series will shed some light on some of the more obscure parts of the NFL rulebook.

A potentially controversial sequence of events occurred late in the second half of the Packers-Falcons game when it appeared that two different players possibly threw punches that could’ve have warranted ejections.